Elizabeth Bowen Quotes


... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.


Citations

Bowen, Elizabeth. Bowen's Court. Longmans, Green, 1942.

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Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
  • Born: June 7, 1899
  • Died: February 22, 1973
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Novelist

Elizabeth Bowen CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her fiction about life in wartime London.